This is an analysis of the poem The Fight Of The Caroline that begins with:
It was the good ship Caroline,
That ploughed the Channel foam,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbcadda XeceXfddf aegehacXX ehahchcch hiXigaXea JaJaaehhe Jijijahha iakacakkaXaecehaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001101 110101 11010101 010111 110100100 0010101 1010110101 1010110101 110101 0101110 0100101 10010101 110111 11110101 11100101 1111111101 010111011 1101001 110100101 1110111 11010101 110101 1101100101 1101001 101101110 101111011 111001000 01110111 1010111 1010010101 1100111 110011101 110111 10101100111 1010111101 0110111 111111010 110101 11010010 010111 11110101 1110101 11010010 01010111 10100101 10100111 010111 10100111 10100111 10111100111 1110111 10101101001 101101001101 111101 10100111 11101001 10100111 100101 10110101001 011101 10011111 1111101001 111111 1100111101 1101001 1100100101 110101 1100100101 011101 11010001 0010111001 010111 111010111 1010111 010100101 110101 1001111001 1110101 101111101 111111111 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ready, straight, fire, grimly, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'make, fire are repeated.
The author used the same words it, grimly at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase men connects the lines.
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